ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2019
Bark coverage shifts assembly processes of microbial decomposer communities in dead wood.
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- 12 years of assembly patterns in saproxylic beetles suggest early decay wood as ephemeral resource patch.The Journal of animal ecology · 2026Article
- Climate and traits drive bark decomposition patterns at global scale.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Bark presence shifts fungal guild composition with varying effects on fungal diversity and biomass in a tropical forest.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Repeated measures of decaying wood reveal the success and influence of fungal wood endophytes.mSystems · 2025Article
- The Structural and Functional Diversities of Bacteria Inhabiting Plant Woody Tissues and Their Interactions with Fungi.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Variation in Microbiota and Chemical Components WithinMicroorganisms · 2025Article
- Drivers of wood-inhabiting fungal diversity in European and Oriental beech forests.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Biotic interactions outweigh abiotic factors as drivers of bark microbial communities in Central European forests.ISME communications · 2024Article
- Resin acids play key roles in shaping microbial communities during degradation of spruce bark.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Bacterial, but not fungal, communities show spatial heterogeneity in European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) deadwood.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2023Article
- Quantifying wood decomposition by insects and fungi using computed tomography scanning and machine learning.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Molecular-Based Diversity Studies and Field Surveys Are Not Mutually Exclusive: On the Importance of Integrated Methodologies in Mycological Research.Frontiers in fungal biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Bark protects living trees against environmental influences but may promote wood decomposition by fungi and bacteria after tree death. However, the mechanisms by which bark determines the assembly process and biodiversity of decomposers remain unknown. Therefore, we partially or completely removed bark from experimentally felled trees and tested with null modelling whether assembly processes were determined by bark coverage and if biodiversity of molecularly sampled fungi and bacteria generally benefited from increasing bark cover. The community composition of fungi, wood-decaying fungi (subset of all fungi) and bacteria clearly separated between completely debarked, partly debarked and control trees. Bacterial species richness was higher on control trees than on either partly or completely debarked trees, whereas the species richness of all fungi did not differ. However, the species richness of wood-decaying fungi was higher on partially and completely debarked trees than on control trees. Deterministic assembly processes were most important in completely debarked trees, a pattern consistent for fungi and bacteria. Our findings suggest that human disturbances in forests shift the dominant assembly mechanism from stochastic to deterministic processes and thus alter the diversity of wood-inhabiting microorganisms.
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